Imagine This World, by Bill Colley

     Maybe biased journalists should spend a year doing penance on a chain gang. Three-hundred-sixty-five days and through rain, snow and blazing heat. Obviously, there isn’t any discipline in many newsrooms and there appears to be a belief the media wretches need to instruct the brain-addled masses when it comes to candidate selection. After all reporters and editors are building Mars rockets and curing cancer in their spare time. The rest of us just can’t compete when it comes to intelligence quotient. As fellow travelers in league with academia and Hillary Clinton your friendly journalist doesn’t have much use for the Constitution. As President Obama trampled it through regulation-by-fiat a large portion of media repeated “transformational change” and ignored the trashing of a founding document. Media winked at abuses from the Internal Revenue Service as it intimidated political enemies.

       Reporters by and large cheered the rape encampments known as Occupy while condemning ranchers camped at a wildlife refuge. A newspaper columnist and television talking head named Fareed Zakaria accused his adopted countrymen of “fetishizing” the Constitution.

      Think about his comment for a moment. If you don’t believe in a God active in human affairs then you don’t believe the document offers God-given rights. Which means you believe these rights can be snatched away in what you subjectively believe is the correct path. With the Constitution reduced to some quaint suggestions brought forth by old slave-owning men you can simply ignore it and create your own system of justice and often what we see is clearly revenge. The trouble with this sort of thinking is someday my side is going to mop up in an election. These happen when the economy tanks and the party of the president is banished for a generation. Odds are it’s going to happen to any party if we live long enough to witness these economic disruptions. When your side loses then I guess it’s my turn to play the king.

       As a hypothetical let’s say next week I begin ruling by what I proclaim as Divine Right. My first action is to chain all the abortion doctors in a line and have them shovel ditches for 52 weeks. Then they’ll be tried for crimes against humanity. Some of the guilty may pay the ultimate price for slaughtering the innocent. Don’t give me any mumbo jumbo about my church being opposed to hangings. Google the name Avery Cardinal Dulles. Personal opinions of clergy aren’t the official policy of the Roman Church.

        Safe spaces on college campuses are now closed. The world is a tough and often cruel habitat and if you haven’t been taught reality by the time you graduate high school you’re in for quite a shock. You’re on campus to learn and you won’t be coddled and you sure as heck aren’t going to make any demands about dismissing members of faculty you don’t like. In a nod to diversity the nation’s universities will be forced to fill quotas by hiring more conservative professors. Kids who misbehave in public schools and disrupt learning will clean toilets and if mom and dad object they’ll join the work detail.

        Big-city mayors who allow looters to run wild during riots so they can blow off steam will join the looters and the doctors in the shovel brigade.

        Cake bakers, photographers and wedding planners will have their liberties restored and won’t lose their livelihoods for standing on conscience and faith. People who aren’t sure if they’re man, woman or other will be treated with compassion. They’ll receive the psychiatric care they desperately need. Or they’ll be left to their own devices as long as they don’t harm others and try and impose an unscientific view on society. There is no settled science and there isn’t any evidence of people being “born that way!” We simply don’t know. It’s not genetic and we don’t know if it’s chemical. The culture won’t be upended for a lack of evidence and because you want to be nice to the confused young man at the office.

        Athletes need not stand for the Star Spangled Banner but it’s my right to encourage your league to prevent you from competing and to pressure advertisers to bail on endorsement deals. Perhaps we can turn Colin Kaepernick into a real hero and send him off to Afghanistan. He can dress in pink camouflage and draw enemy fire and thereby reveal Taliban positions. He’ll forfeit his NFL pay before leaving for war.

                                   Hillary Clinton will be jailed.

      A minnow swimming in a stream won’t require the diversion of water resources needed to feed a hungry planet. The departments of Energy, Education, Interior, Environmental Protection and Internal Revenue will be shuttered and locked immediately. The BLM will become a relic of history as states resume sovereign roles. Amtrak will be stopped dead in its tracks and sold as a whole or in regional sections to the private sector.

     Plane flights will be provided for actors threatening to leave the country. Their 20,000-square-foot homes will be appropriated to house the homeless created by liberal social and planning policies. Subsidies for ethanol, wind and solar power are finished. Coal, oil and natural gas industries will be blessed by the government. If these traditional firms or other investors believe the alternatives have a future in the marketplace then have your way.

      The United Nations will need to find a new home when the United States withdraws and provides no funding. Allies in Europe and Asia will share defense costs and these alliances will be gradually phased out as America becomes self-sufficient on energy and begins paying down debts and taking care of its own people.

     There will be a mighty border wall. The United States isn’t responsible for the bad governing policies in Central and South America. Efficient government isn’t a secret. Make the changes and provide for your own people!

    When I step aside and retire to a nice home in a small town with a nice view, voting rights and elections will be restored. An honorable military discharge earns you two votes. Combat experience earns you three. A simple literacy test will be applied to all potential voters above the age of 18. Name your governor, one U.S. senator and correctly identify the century when the U.S. Civil War occurred. For good measure who did we bury in Grant’s Tomb and when was the War of 1812?

Now, Lefty, you know how the rest of us feel about your attacks on our liberties, culture and God.

     We’ve had 80 years of creeping socialism. The country is a wreck. The federal government is officially $20 trillion in debt and nobody really knows if the figure is accurate. Dozens of states are heavily indebted with unfunded liabilities and struggling with unfunded mandates. Criminals prey upon law enforcement. Cities smolder and those yet to burn are crumbling piles of rubble where wild dogs and sometimes even bears roam block after abandoned block. Traditional families are shunned and government policy for the poor discourages marriage and leaves children alone in jungles of concrete where survival often involves fealty to criminal gangs. The dead vote and often multiple times and the results bolster the status quo.

      Then you’ve the temerity to call me racist, bigot and hater when I long for a country governed by the sensible and the God-fearing and a future for my children and yours.

The Mass of Christ and how to promote it. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

CHRISTMAS – beautiful, wonderful part of the year that softens the hearts of hardened soldiers and emboldens the courage of the meek. It is the time when God breathes His spirit through us and reminds us of His son, born in a manger, held by a young, flawlessly humble and pure maiden, and guarded by a carpenter whose loving care sheltered both wife and child.
CHRISTMAS – celebrated and honored in the West for thousands of years – despite efforts to put out its light. When darkness fell – the light defeated the dark.
CHRISTMAS – the advent wreath – five candles – three purple, one pink and the center one white. Each Sunday before Christmas the candles are lit and Bible verses are read, and ancient carols are sung – in the faithful churches – and in the homes of adoring families.
CHRISTMAS – Nativities, the Star of Bethlehem, stable, Mary, Joseph, shepherds, farm animals, camels and Wise Men.
CHRISTMAS – ancient carols sung in the night on the streets in neighborhoods, in
churches and in homes.
CHRISTMAS – the story of the baby born in a manger read from the Bible – complete with Herod’s soldiers murdering babies up to two years old to try to kill the Son of David – but an Angel of the Lord warns Joseph and the dear, courageous father escapes to Egypt to save the Son of God.
CHRISTMAS – Trees and lights and hearts of joy shopping happily for loved ones. Little ones wait for Santa – but the true magic of the soul leaps to the manger – to the Son of God made man through the Holy Spirit.
A wonderful little documentary exists that details the history of Christmas in America.
—The name of it is Christmas Unwrapped.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQYX-OB1Rs)
In this film I learned how the carols sung in Catholic churches in the old days on Christmas Eve inspired Christians of all denominations to do the same – to ring in the joy of Christ’s birth with songs while holding candles – defeating the dark with small, flickering flames.  Despite the efforts of tyrants big and small to erase or transform Christmas –sometimes it took centuries – but the Light always defeated the Dark.
And THAT my friends, I want to encourage you as you see a lack of Christmas and
Nativities and all the true meanings of Christmas in our public square today – I want to encourage you NOT TO DESPAIR.
I despaired. I wanted to go to battle and fight the anti-God monsters.
But one day, in mass, I heard a voice behind me. That voice sang an ancient song,
humble, clear, with such love that the tiny voice rose above all the adults packed in the church. I turned to see this little boy who sang a very complicated ancient song in such innocense, such humble adoration, that surely the angels themselves were accompanying him.
This kind of love cements in a young heart the kind of devotion that rises the courage of a warrior in a future grown man. It fills a young girl with the soul of Joan of Arc.
This, my friends, is why tyrants work so hard to squash the teaching of God in the souls of children.
This is why Christmas is airbrushed very carefully out of our country.
Look around this Christmas. How many nativities do you see?
On the other hand – we see blue lights, penguins, snow, holiday trees, and Santas with the message of “Merry” and “Happy” and “Joy” and “Peace” – minus a key word – Christmas.
There are bravehearts out there fighting hard to bring back Christmas to its true meaning. I have a friend who teaches dance and she is trying to introduce her little dancers to “Away in the Manger”, “Silent Night,” and other traditional songs. The little girls never heard of them – yet
they know “Let it Snow!”
A small town in New Mexico is fighting against the Freedom From Religion Foundation to keep their permanent nativity. In fact, the whole town put up nativities on their lawns last year as away of letting the FFRF to take a hike  .(http://www.news-bulletin.com/news/believe-in-belen-campaign-begins-with-rally-for-city-s/article_0bffa722-8708-507e-8958-a0aa599f05b8.html)
Texas placed a nativity on its capital grounds and tells the legal bullies to go pound holly.(http://tpr.org/post/first-ever-nativity-scene-goes-state-capitol-little-fuss#stream/0) The Lone Star State also passed the Merry Christmas Law (http://www.merrychristmasbill.com/).
But Christmas is a long fight ahead of us.
I have been battling it out for years. I have felt discouraged so many times – not because of ourn enemies – but because of the apathy of fellow Christians! The shrugs of “Well, what are you going to do?”
That little voice behind me sent a lightning bolt to my soul that day. I realized that the war will be won only with the help of God, Himself. This is a war for the hearts of children young and not yet born. This is a quiet war that will have to be waged with quietly planting seeds.
Before I lay out my ideas for “planting season”, let me give you a quote from a book that I have been reading. Erwin W. Lutzer wrote a book I hope everyone reading this article will buy andread and study – that book is When a Nation Forgets God, 7 Lessons We Must Learn from NaziGermany. You see, that kind of love coming from the tyke in church behind me, born and allowed to grow in a child’s heart, is a love that will not flee at the sight of tyranny, at the threat of torture, at the
bullying of a lawyer.  And that, dear friends, is why so many work so hard to destroy all remnants of Christmas – the true, traditional beauty of celebrating Christmas, as a town, as a nation, as a people.
Hitler understood it (which is so well illustrated by Lutzer in his book I mentioned above):
“So, right from the beginning Hitler sought to marginalize the church to guarantee
that no Christian influence would be allowed to inform government policy. Worship would have to be a private matter between a man and his God; at all costs the official state policy would have to be based on humanistic principles to give Hitler the freedom to do what was “best” for Germany. He said that the churches must be “forbidden from interfering with temporal matters.” The state would have to be scrubbed clean of all Christian convictions
and values.”

When a Nation Forgets God, 7 Lessons We Must Learn from Nazi Germany,
by Erwin W. Lutzer, p. 16
The first item on the to do list of Hitler in order to realize his strategy of removing God from Germany was to remove Christmas. He did not start by telling the Germans and Austrians that they had to give up their love for God, Jesus, Joseph and Mary — no, no, no – it was a slow, subtle transformation.
Again, from Lutzer’s book, When a Nation Forgets God:
“Since Germans had for centuries celebrated Christmas and Easter, Hitler had to
reinterpret their meaning. Christmas was turned into a totally pagan festival; in fact, at least for the SS troops, its date was changed to December 21, the date of the winter solstice. School prayers were banned and carols and Nativity plays were forbidden in the schools; and in 1938 even the name Christmas was changed to Yuletide. Crucifixes were eliminated from classrooms. Easter was turned into a holiday that heralded the arrival of spring. If religion was tolerated, it had to be secularized so that it would be compatible with the state’s commitment to the greater good of a revived Germany. Most of the churches bowed to the
cultural currents and endorsed the “Positive Christianity” that was in line with government policies.” p. 16
Lutzer further explains and details how the churches for the most part thought they would be left alone if they just did not bother with going public with their teachings from the Bible. But that only worked until Hitler had full power, then the real tyranny followed.
“These pious Christians thought that if they left Hitler alone, he would leave them
alone. But they discovered that was not possible. Hitler also put pressure on them to have their children indoctrinated in the state schools and, thanks to the cultural pressure, their churches were not equipping members to stand against the abuses that were developing around them. In the end, he wanted to transform the church so thoroughly that every vestige of Christianity would be smashed. There was not enough room in the churches for both the cross and the swastika. As he himself mused, ‘One god must dominate another.’ “ (Lutzer, pp. 18 -19)
There is a lie about “Separation of Church and State.” It was never intended to mean churches were to stay out of the public square.
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In his January, 2001 article at his website, Wallbuilders, David Barton picks apart the fraud of “wall of separation” – (http://wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=123)
“Jefferson believed that the government was to be powerless to interfere with religious expressions for a very simple reason: he had long witnessed the unhealthy tendency of government to encroach upon the free exercise of religion. . . . Since this was Jefferson’s view concerning religious expression, in his short and polite reply to the Danbury Baptists on January 1, 1802, he assured them that they need not fear; that the free exercise of religion would never be interfered with by the federal government.”   Please, go to the link above to learn more.
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You see, the “wall of separation” was to forbid the Federal Government from interfering with public religious celebrations – not the other way around!
But back to Germany – here is but one example of tyrannies that tried so hard to erase God – Nazi Germany regulated the churches to death.
“Hitler responded to the opposition of the church in the same way all hostile
governments respond to those who would disagree with them; He created a flurry of new laws and then accused pastors and church leaders of breaking them. In one way or another God had to be separated from government policies and ejected from the public square. The voice of courageous Christians had to be silenced. God had to be removed to make way for the National Socialist policies.” (Lutzer, p. 23)
Let’s return to penguins and blue lights for the “holidays.” Has anyone noticed that
Halloween (a religious holy day celebrating the night before All Saints Day) has morphed into “Fall Celebrations,” Easter is now “Spring Fest,” and Thanksgiving is a holiday to consider what we are thankful FOR not whom we are thankful TO and WHY (GOD)?
Let’s return to Lutzer’s book:
“Hitler always said that the best way to conquer your enemies is to divide them. He
encouraged a movement simply called, “God Believers” (he was willing to use the word God as long as it was emptied of all essential meaning), a policy designed to persuade individuals to withdraw from the churches. The sales pitch was that there was an alternative to the church; the state could have a ceremony to dedicate infants; the state could have its own holidays without the need to celebrate the Christian ones. Marriages, for those who wished, could also be performed by the state. The blessings of Mother Earth and Father Sky were frequently invoked upon the couple until their destiny was fulfilled. In the same way same-sex
marriage proponents say today that marriage can take place without the blessings of a religious body; it can be a purely secular act separate from religious overtones.” – (Lutzer, pp.23-24).
But the problem is not the enemies of God – the problem is within us.
This Christmas, watch the old 1940’s movie, The Bishop’s Wife. The final scene in the movie, the bishop reads the sermon that he thought he had written but was really authored by an angel. The point of the sermon pointed to a fact we must face, everyone is remembered in our Christmas celebrations – but the little baby in the manger. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzRUZYI8XdU)
Another movie – Charlie Brown’s Christmas, Linus turns his blanket into a shepherd’s cover and recite’s from the Bible the Nativity story
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxaG0ZrwJ5k):
Charles Schultz insisted on putting the scene of Linus quoting from the Bible.
Charlie Brown arrives at the rehearsals, but he is unable to control the situation as the uncooperative kids are more interested in modernizing the play with dancing and lively music, mainly Schroeder’s rendition of “Linus and Lucy.” Thinking the play requires “the proper mood,” Charlie Brown decides they need a Christmas tree. Lucy takes over the crowd and dispatches Charlie Brown to get a “big, shiny aluminum tree.” With Linus in tow, Charlie Brown sets off on his quest, as an “O Tannenbaum” instrumental plays in the background.
When they get to the tree market, filled with numerous trees fitting Lucy’s description, Charlie
Brown zeroes in on the only real tree on the lot—a tiny sapling. Linus is reluctant about Charlie Brown’s choice, but Charlie Brown is convinced that after decorating it, it will be just right for the play. They return to the auditorium with the tree, at which point the children (particularly the girls and Snoopy) ridicule, then laugh at Charlie Brown before walking away. In desperation, Charlie Brown loudly asks if anybody really knows what Christmas is all about. Linus, standing alone on the stage, states he can tell him, and recites the annunciation to the shepherds scene from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 2, verses 8 through 14, as translated by the Authorized King James Version: “8And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. 12And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 14Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and goodwill towards men.” “…That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.”[2]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas)
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Wikepedia sheds light on the background of the scene and how it could have been left on the cutting room floor:
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Schulz’s main goal for a Peanuts-based Christmas special was to focus on the true meaning of Christmas.[8] He desired to juxtapose this theme with interspersed shots of snow and ice-skating, perhaps inspired by his own childhood growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota.[8] He also created the idea for the school play, and mixing jazz with traditional Christmas carols.[8] Schulz was adamant about Linus’ reading of the Bible, despite Mendelson and Melendez’s concerns that religion was a controversial topic, especially on television.[10] Melendez recalled Schulz turned to him and remarked “If we don’t do it, who will?”.[3] Schulz’s estimation proved accurate, and in the 1960s, less than 9 percent of television Christmas episodes contained a substantive reference to religion, according to university researcher
Stephen Lind.[11] It could also be worth noting that the Linus’s recitation of Scripture was incorporated in such a way that it forms the climax of the film, thus making it impossible to successfully edit out.
Schulz’s faith in the Bible stemmed from his Midwest background and religious and historical studies;[10] as such, aspects of religion would be a topic of study throughout his life.[12] According to a 2015 “spiritual biography”, Schulz’s religion was personal and complex, and would be integrated in a number of his programs. [13] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas)
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So, what are we to do, we who mourn for the warmth of the season in its true light?
Spread seeds! Get together with those who love Christmas and make it your passion to bring it back. You can start a caroling group in and out of church. You can sponsor Christmas pageants in your town. You can offer to read the Christmas stories at shelters, and other places.
You can sponsor Christmas movie showings at your local libraries and town squares. Be sure to include The Little Drummer Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRbTrensuiY) and The Nativity Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqu2r7qj7Fs)!
God gave each of you your individual talents – USE THEM and the Light will Defeat the Dark.  Much is already being done on our behalf. For example, Liberty Counsel has a campaing which they will take on any entity that tries to squash open religious expression
(http://www.lc.org/newsroom/details/111616-liberty-counsel-launches-annual-christmas-campaign)
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Believe it or not, many legal organizations jump at the chance to take on the grinches.
This helpful list is at Wallbuilders (http://wallbuilders.com/links.asp#legal):
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Alliance Defending Freedom
http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/
American Center for Law and Justice
http://www.aclj.org
Christian Law Association
http://www.christianlaw.org
First Liberty
http://firstliberty.org/
Liberty Counsel
http://www.lc.org
The National Legal Foundation
http://www.nlf.net
Pacific Justice Institute

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Religious Organization Legal Defense Association
http://www.sharpefirm.com/rolda/index.html
The Rutherford Institute
https://www.rutherford.org/
Thomas More Law Center

Thomas More Law Center | The Sword and Shield for People of Faith

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But more can be done and done by you!
1. Start a group of like minded friends in and out of your church to take on
Christmas and the other religious holidays.
2. Seek out states that are making “Merry Christmas” laws and encourage (push)
your legislators in your state to do the same.
3. Gather about you local dance schools, singing instructors, and other organizations that would pool their talents and passion for Christmas and start truly BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS PAGEANTS!
4. Organize Christmas readings at hospitals, youth shelters and the local abuse
shelters as well as schools and pre-schools.  Remember the little boy with the angelic voice – the real way to win this war is to find ways to lead the little ones back to Christ.

George Soros: Billionaire, Anti-Trump, Criminal (in Europe), Marxist, and backer of BLM and of other hate groups.

Moses Apostaticus

Freelance Writer

4:00 PM 11/17/2016

Evidence has been emerging over the past week that the anti-Trump protests and riots disrupting cities across America are not spontaneous or grassroots in their origin. It has come to light rather that these sometimes violent and disruptive demonstrations are being organized by a nationwide network of non-profit organizations with links to billionaire financier George Soros.

Ads posted by Soros-linked liberal groups have been appearing on Craigslist sites across the nation offering payment to participate in the anti-Trump protests. President-elect Trump himself stated during his interview with 60 Minutes that professional protesters were behind the riots.

The question in many Americans’ minds is not only what animates these angry, hateful protesters out on the streets but also what motivates a billionaire like Soros to foment unrest across the nation?

This question becomes even more disturbing given revelations that Soros has been involved in Europe’s Middle Eastern migrant crisis, has funded the Black Lives Matter movement and was one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest political donors during the presidential campaign. He is also openly leading the liberal resistance strategy against the Trump presidency.

So what is driving George Soros to carry out this anti-American agenda?

George Soros is a neo-Marxist who came of age during the tumultuous Nazi occupation of Europe. Pretending to be Christian to avoid the persecution of Jews, Soros managed to survive through to the liberation of his native Hungary. After the war, Soros studied at the London School of Economics under Dr Karl Popper before moving to America in 1956.

The London School of Economics was founded by Fabian socialists Beatrice and Sidney Webb. It has long been a center for Marxist thought, and Karl Popper fit right in there. Like Soros, Popper was a Central European Jew displaced by the Nazi juggernaut. He had fled to New Zealand, where he wrote his famous political work ‘The Open Society and its Enemies’.

This book is key to understanding what motivates George Soros. He even named his flagship political organization The Open Society Institute.

Popper’s thesis is that there are two types of societies in history – open societies and closed ones. A closed society is tribal and hierarchical, has a culture based on fixed beliefs about reality and is not welcoming of foreigners. An open society, on the other hand, is philosophical, creative and open to outsiders.

Popper imagines a model in which democratic societies are open and totalitarian societies are closed. In Popper’s political philosophy, a democratic state must seek to erase its ethnic identity and any traces of cultural heritage for it to achieve freedom and avoid tyranny. There must be no distinctions between people for utopia to be possible.

Popper praised Karl Marx’s ‘humanitarian’ intentions but criticized him for taking on elements of closed societies in his political philosophy. For Popper, Marx wasn’t radical enough when it came to multiculturalism and open borders.

With this background, we can begin to see how Soros’ globalist agenda fits neatly with the Cultural Marxist teachings which the New Left academic radicals have indoctrinated into America’s youth since the 1960’s. Soros’ astroturfing organizations find a willing army of anti-Trumpers on the campuses and in the liberal cities of coastal America.

In the hands of a billionaire social engineer such as Soros, the anti-American Cultural Marxist ideology preached across America’s education establishment becomes a weapon which can be wielded to take the nation hostage.

Like religions, political ideologies are incredibly powerful at mobilizing large groups of people. The mass movements of the twentieth century – the wars and political and cultural revolutions – were animated by the power of ideological belief. New Left ideology has been taught to America’s children and young adults for 50 years now, and the division and political violence we are seeing in the cities of American today is its fruit.

Anti-American Marxist rioters are not born. They are made. They are made by having the New Left doctrines of white guilt, male privilege, black victimhood and female subjugation preached to them endlessly during their education. Entire degrees now exist which are framed around such narratives of white male wickedness. It becomes an all-consuming, self-reinforcing worldview. These are the radicalized young people Soros’ Craigslist ads are targeting.

These special snowflakes of outrage are incubated in the totalitarian atmosphere of America’s colleges and universities. The Marxist culture which prevails in Western universities is very real. Brave defenders of free speech such as Professor Jordan Peterson at the University of Toronto are being ostracized and threatened for such thoughtcrimes as using the traditional gender pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’ when referring to students.

George Orwell, a former Marxist himself, warned us in the novel ‘1984’ that the totalitarian socialists would invert the meaning of words to deceive the public in order to achieve their collectivist goals. We can see that happening today from the left, with such terms as ‘liberal’, ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’ taking on opposite meanings in the mouths of leftists. The left has always inverted the truth in order to achieve its objectives, and the staged uprisings we are seeing which the media portrays as spontaneous is a clear example. Through deceptions such as these, most Americans remain unaware of the ideological weapons being deployed against the Republic by those who seek to destroy it.

There is a belief among the left in America today that Christian Western culture was responsible for Nazism. They are wrong. National socialism, like all ideological abominations of the twentieth century, emerged out of Marxist philosophy. If the left wants to find the Nazis in America today, they would do well to look in the mirror.

Read more:http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/17/weaponized-ideology/#ixzz4QQl4NzCh

The Dancer and the Islamist. by Helen McCaffrey

In 1911, the old folk tale of Petroushka came to life on the Paris stage as a ballet scored by Igor Stravinsky, choreographed by Michel Fokine, and performed by Sergei Dhiagilev’s Ballet Russes. Set in Russia, the plot of the ballet involves three puppets—Petroushka, the Ballerina, and the Moor—that are brought to life by a character known as the Charlatan. Petroushka falls in love with the Ballerina, but she rather prefers the Moor. Petroushka, unable to cope with such a blow to his pride, challenges the Moor to a duel. The Moor wins and kills Petroushka, but as night descends, Petroushka’s ghost rises to haunt both the theater and the Charlatan until at last the feckless puppeteer collapses. In recent months, this ballet has come to haunt me once more, in part thanks to Jordan Wolfson.

     Last May, Wolfson debuted a new sculpture at David Zwirner Gallery in New York. In light of his prior showpiece there in 2014—an animatronic robot of a dancing, mostly nude woman in a witch mask, titled Female figure—it feels more appropriate to refer to each exhibition as a debut, like a product debut. This is the new model, the new character, the new gadget, the new monstrosity that we all line up to see. The piece is called Colored sculpture, a title that was embarrassingly left unanalyzed by just about every bit of press the show received.

     Wolfson describes the piece rather succinctly in talking to Artinfo: “The artwork is a figurative sculpture based on Huckleberry Finn, Alfred E. Neuman, and Howdy Doody. It’s a cartoony, life-size figure that’s almost like a piece of sports equipment. It has six points around the body, and it’s rudimentarily animated from three of these points. It’s similar to other characters I’ve used in my films, but it’s ultimately a new character. It also has eyes, which are video screens with special glass lenses on top. It’s able to make eye contact with viewers, like [Female figure]. The character goes between anger and pain. Animated content plays in the video screens that serve as its eyes, along with live video footage I’ve shot. Formally, it’s extremely glossy, reflective.”

     Since 2011, nearly all of Wolfson’s work has looked back at its viewer. The Shylockian caricature from Animation, Masks (2011) meets your eyes as he gestures, speaks, and pages through Vogue. His redheaded cartoon character from Raspberry Poser (2012) looks back as well, while he screams at you, disembowels himself, and maniacally gestures with jazz hands. His sculpture, Female figure, was his first foray into animatronics and facial recognition software, mechanically activating its gaze so that it followed the viewer  around the room. His characters all have their own particular admixture of playful and resentful contempt for the viewer, and his newest sculpture is no exception.

It is a strange and haunting piece. The body is broken up into various sections, made of a material that feels as resilient as an ocean buoy. It is animated by a series of three chains attached to its head, one hand, and one foot, all hanging from a gantry system. Despite three simple points of contact, its range of activity is impressively poetic. Furthermore, there is an occasional soundtrack: from time to time, Percy Sledge’s famous 1966 track “When a Man Loves a Woman” barrels in, clipped and starting off midway through the song. It stops just as abruptly as it starts, making a normally sweet and sentimental song feel awfully suspect. The figure often menacingly hovers through the room, only to crash to the floor moments later, its limbs akimbo. Or it will slowly find itself in a pose, the chains clicking one by one like a roller coaster ride, until each limb finally hit its precise position like a strange, palsied dancer.

     To my mind, Colored sculpture is in a way an updated version of Stravinsky’s Petroushka—a white puppet brought to life by the Charlatan, forever resentful of a world that didn’t let him have the girl. Worse yet, a world that would allow a Moor to get the girl. Who knows what a man will do when he loves a woman, with or without her love in return?

Petroushka

     The notion of music that mocks its subject was one way that the philosopher and critic Theodor Adorno separated Stravinsky’s work from what he thought was the more progressive work of Arnold Schoenberg. Whereas Schoenberg’s early Neo-Romanticism led to an inwardly withdrawn self that transcended singular subjectivity, “[s]uch pathos is totally alien to Stravinsky’s Petroushka…. In Stravinsky’s case, subjectivity assumes the character of sacrifice, but—and this is where he sneers at the tradition of humanistic art—the music does not identify with the victim, but rather with the destructive element. Through the liquidation of the victim it rids itself of all intentions—that is, of its own subjectivity.”

     It could be argued that a similar sense of emptying out the subject is at play in Wolfson’s piece, that the complexity of the work is precisely that it keys in on high-octane emotionality while also evacuating it. It’s stupid to feel for the puppet; it’s impossible not to. What was felt by many who looked at Colored sculpture was a sense of loss, a feeling of repulsion and empathic care—slightly more complex than Adorno’s indictment of Stravinsky, but related nonetheless. Many saw in this figure a kind of pain and anguish that was brutalizing, but elegiac and existential. Yet unlike Petroushka, Wolfson’s music and dancer are both more ambivalent.

     Wolfson’s music both mocks and connects with the figure, and further still, Wolfson’s figure refuses liquidation through anger and vengeful scorn, resisting the wave of empathy that the music rides. Regardless of how many times he falls to pieces, the figure disregards sentiment, will not recognize it. He is both a figure of pain and a figure of ugly spite. The range of emotions is aggressively polar—we empathize, we recoil, we ache, we pause.

     This collective and unquestioned “we” got me to conjure a thought experiment. Let us imagine for a moment that Colored sculpture was precisely that, a sculpture of a person of color. Let us imagine that, rather than seeing a red-haired white child, we saw a black boy hanging from the rafters. What then? My guess is that the reaction would have been different. Instead of feeling an empathic queasiness, a kind of universal wretchedness, I would wager that many would say that the piece is too “obvious,” too simple, too direct, too political, too “real.” Here is my first real indictment, and it’s not of Jordan Wolfson, but of the audience.

     The white body, through its repetition in a history of art that is largely painted white itself, has become an easy and lazy signifier for a universal body, for a metaphorical body, one that becomes symbolic and slippery, that can always be more than its mere representation.  The non-white body, I believe, has greater difficulty in attaining this metaphorical bounty. Kerry James Marshall has fought diligently and profoundly against this tide and won, but examples are unfortunately rare. This, of course, does not mean that black and non-white artists have not achieved this endlessly throughout history, but that, by and large, their work is still ghettoized, simplified, and misunderstood.

     Let us banish the idea that the body in action is universal in any way. That brings us to the baser fact that it is a Caucasian body that is being flailed around—a Caucasian sculpture that is called Colored sculpture.  Like most racism of the current moment, plausible deniability works like a well-oiled escape hatch. To call the work Colored sculpture might simply be a nod to classical sculpture which was painted in its inception but time has stripped it of its color, allowing us to believe that they were never painted or “colored” in the first place. Similarly, Wolfson’s sculpture began “colored” but as it is battered, that color will wear away. (I have no interest here in interrogating whether the artist himself is racist or not, and do not believe that is relevant when speaking to larger structural problems.)

This is a convenient and obviously insufficient explanation. The title leads me to believe something more sinister is at work (intentional or not), and that the resentment of this figure’s gaze is particular to our moment—a moment where just days ago a misogynistic, racist, resentful, angry, overbearing, incoherent, unqualified, and profoundly dangerous man was voted in as our next president of the United States, defeating a problematic but infinitely more qualified and able female candidate. What this indicates in, among other things, is a moment where the resentment of a swath of voters said to be in the “flyover zone” of America has reached a boil. We, the liberal-minded frogs, did not notice the pot’s temperature rising and are now potentially cooked.

When “negro” was the polite term people of color.

           Now conservatives are joining the politically correct and attacking their own.   He’s challenging many ranking think-tank conservatives who are now calling everyone they don’t like a racist bigot.  After sharing some of the writer’s thoughts on today’s edition of Top Story I returned from a commercial break with my own thoughts about how it’s dangerous in current America to do nothing more than open your mouth.  If what you’re saying isn’t offensive at the moment just wait an hour for the wind direction to change.  I’m reminded of the liberal I saw a few years ago on MSDNC calling out the Washington Redskins for having an offensive name.  The host asked the guest how long the team’s handle had been an offense.  “Since the middle of the last century,” replied the liberal whiner.  In other words Redskins wasn’t offensive until some lefty invented the affront.  More of my epic rant is contained in the video below.
http://newsradio1310.com/negro-was-once-the-polite-term-opinion/

Letters from Idaho, Bill Colley

 

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One of the reasons the American right can’t get its act together is because it keeps attacking itself.  We’re seeing it in Idaho as the feds threaten to send some folks away for a long time and many are now singing.  I shared some thoughts today at our website which surely won’t make me many new friends on the right.

Letters from Idaho, Bill Colley

I spoke last night at the county fair with the former publisher of the local daily newspaper.  He’s now a member of the state legislature, carries a gun and for a guy who came here from Maine seems more Idaho than most Idahoans. 

He explained since he left the paper about 15 years ago circulation has dropped by two thirds and only ten percent of the city’s population actually subscribes.  None of this is unusual in the newspaper business.  The ‘Net and Craigslist were like a termite infestation.  On the other hand he also believes (and I heard this often when I worked for David Schoumacher) that perception of liberal bias hurts newspaper sales and advertising.  The fellow I will be replacing on the op/ed pages was a “conservative” but he wasn’t local and it appears many readers didn’t believe he was right-of-center.  I’m a Buchananite, which also makes me a questionable conservative.  I prefer traditionalist.  

A friend is a SGT with Idaho State Police and said he would start taking the paper again if I get hired.  It’s anecdotal but to a readership in the reddest state in the union it could help with circulation. 

I’m also the local talk show host and not some guy from Pocatello, although.  The newspaper chain owns almost every daily in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and parts of some other neighboring states.  I don’t see why after a year I couldn’t be in more papers.  Even if these papers fold printing operations they’ll remain as web presences and opinion is cheaper to produce than news.

 

Of course I’ll keep my day job.  As people were approaching me at the booth last night and telling me they were big fans I was pointing out our General Manager.  “Tell her,” was my response. 

I’m feeling guilty today.  I came home from the fair and stayed awake until 9:30 playing with the cats.  Then I slept until almost 6:00 this morning!  I did double duty last week (filling in on another show and writing the daily Ag report which required some research) and today all I’ve done is walk across the street for lunch and watch football.  Some anonymous neighbor left some dry and canned cat food at my door.  I’m guessing someone moved or had to give a cat away.  Actually, I feel a lot like the cats today.  I’ve taken two naps.  Tomorrow I’ll do some chores and maybe go back to the fair for the first time this year as John Q. Public.  I’ve got a stack of free admission tickets all going to waste.  While it’s a county fair it began as a regional fair (Idaho still has two state fairs) and it’s cheap entertainment. 

The weather here has changed dramatically.  It hasn’t rained much since June and most days were 90s to 100 but tomorrow may not top 70.  Shorts and a sweatshirt should be just fine.  I’m also off Monday and am planning a few days away later this month.  Most likely in a cabin over by the Grand Tetons.  Its’ a day trip but a couple of days on a cabin porch before winter would be welcome.  

Documents through history: The Travis Letter.

The Travis Letter

Commandancy of the The Alamo

Bejar, Feby. 24th. 1836

The Travis Letter  Commandancy of  The Alamo

Bejar, Feby. 24th. 1836

 

 

To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World—

Fellow Citizens & compatriots—

 

     I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna — I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man — The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken — I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls — I shall never surrender or retreat.  Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch — The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days.  If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country — Victory or Death.

P. S.  The Lord is on our side — When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn — We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of BeeveTravi

 

Lessons from life that we most haven’t learned.

         Back in the eighties, as a college co-ed, I enjoyed a long-standing tradition – communing with fellow dorm mates in the dorm living room to watch the soap operas. General Hospital ruled king amongst the soaps. Not knowing how long this tradition of classmate bonding had been in effect – I cared not – I just loved it! Strangers and friends all gathered about together and laughed and cried, and screamed in shock – daily doses of beautiful, exhilarating bonding.
Then one day the unthinkable happened – a fellow coed came in, flipped the channel in the middle of GENERAL HOSPITAL – and sat down on the floor right in front of the tv. She watched the new channel intently, ignoring all the angry and shocked gasps from her fellow students.
Even I was shocked – the girl was a close friend of mine and I knew she was a fan of GH. Stunned, I stared and then observed – NO ONE GOT UP – NO ONE WALKED OVER TO GET INTO HER FACE – NO ONE CHANGED THE CHANNEL BACK!!!
My friend told me later that she exercised her little take over as an experiment for her psychology class.
What was wrong with all of us in that dorm living room that day? What stopped us from doing what any red-blooded American of the past would have done?
For my case, I believe conditioning by twelve years of public school played the most key role. By nature, I am a person that can flash a temper in a moment’s notice – especially if I believe in my heart that I am standing up to injustice.  But along the way, many occasions arose when bullies in school attacked me – under the watchful eyes of teachers and administrators (I saw them) – and nothing happened  – until, each time – I rose to fight back. Believe me, I remember that the intent in my soul at the moment I decided to resist – my intent was not to defend myself – my intent was to pulverize my tormentor without mercy – no matter if I was surrounded, outnumbered, or outsized. That was the moment when something happened – the person in charge ordered me to not even think about combat.
Funny, my grandfather – an old Oklahoma farmer – knew how to fight and beat a man twenty years his junior for cursing in front of my 13-year old brother. “Make love, not war” is not in my genetic makeup. Grandpa even gave all his little tykes permission to fight back by teaching us the techniques to take down Goliaths in our midst – “Kick them in the shin, then punch them in the chin – THEN punch them in the gut!”
But in school I was in a world where self-defense was not allowed – yet bullying was quietly ignored. As a child, I became confused and did not know how to process what was happening. I never told my parents because I did not know if I was in the wrong or not.
Now I know. Now I understand.  And I see my generation completely unable to confront the ones who are methodically “changing the channels” on us.
We are a Christian nation – our Founders consulted with God – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – to guide them in their efforts to declare independence, for protection during the Revolution, and ultimately for divine inspiration in crafting the Constitution. David Barton has meticulously documented every detail of our Christian founding – and that held fast until the 1960s when a sadistic, God hating, nut named Madalyn Murray O’Hair, pushed her way up to the Supreme Court and convinced nine men that we did not need to honor God in our schools anymore. Who gave her, and who gave them the right to change our channel!
That was the time when we as a nation should have rose up and demanded each judge be impeached and any elected official that did not force a vote of impeachment would lose their jobs. But just like in my case in the dorm – a lot of angry verbal reactions – but no strategy to destroy the ones who stole our heritage.
Now little pipsqueaks from anti-God organizations like the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Military Religious Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union – and several more like them – they all like to hide behind the robes of activist judges to force us to cater to their perverted ideas of justice. And it all started with the fight to take down the nativity. Again – we did not fight the way our ancestors taught us – fight to destroy – then show mercy after total victory.
This has all happened before. If you pull out the Catholic Bible – or even the Bible of the Founders – the Geneva Bible – you will find two marvelous books – the Books of the Maccabees. Israel, once again as many times in the past, fell from honoring and obeying God. So God removed his protection. Pagans, Hellenistic Greeks, took over Israel. They demanded that the Israelites forget their God and worship the Greek Gods. The Jews were forced to sacrifice to false Gods and forced to stop their important traditions.
Read the stories – they will amaze you how the ones loyal to God suffered immense torture rather than betray their faith. And finally, God chose a leader – Judas Machabeas – the Hammer of Israel – and he lead a band of faithful men to drive the enemies out.
We don’t have to go to physical war with these people who have changed our channels. We need to be willing to take back our traditions and reclaim this nation for what it is – founded on the traditions of the Old and New Testament – culturally Christian with the mercy to allow others to worship in freedom – but not allowing them to take our traditions from us.

     Our enemies think that they have won. We need to teach them that it is never over – they are going to have to defend the ground they have taken because we are about to prepare for battle.
Here is a lesson from one of our ancestors – at the Alamo – go to this link at the Texas Heritage Society: http://texasheritagesociety.org/The-Travis-Letter-Victory-or-Death-.html
The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison is to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken — I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls
Taking from Will Travis his example – let us call upon our town councils across the nation to “answer with a cannon shot” to those who are trying to erase God from our nation. Let that cannon shot be putting up Nativities on our town squares and celebrating the Christmas season with the traditions we once held – Christmas Carols, readings from the Bible of the Nativity Story, Yule Fires – and ringing the bells!

     And that will be just the beginning!  Let’s get up, look them in the eye, AND CHANGE THE CHANNEL BACK!

Resources:

Will Travis letter: http://texasheritagesociety.org/The-Travis-Letter-Victory-or-Death-.html

Our Christian Heritage: http://wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?cat=HD

War on Christianity: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=537

Madalyn Murray O’Hair: http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/stunning-testimony-from-man-who-fought-prayer/

The Maccabees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVrWBswjVRw

Freedom From Religion Foundation: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7480

Military Religious Foundation: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7312

Why are we celebrating?

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There was a time when the Fourth of July meant something more than a three-day weekend. Speeches, writings and commemorative ceremonies reminded us of the origins and greatness of America. No matter where in the world our ancestors came from, we today are almost invariably better off because they came to America.